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Excerpt from Corrie Who?
So good of you to come, murmured Mrs. Pin chin to each newcomer, and then after a commonplace or two, a hint about the weather, perhaps, or some other observation equally reassuring, the guest was introduced profusely to all within reach; and there, turned adrift among the others herded in the draw ing-room, was required to expect no more from the hostess. Usually this resulted in the person, either male or female, coming to anchor in an attitude elo quently awkward and ill at ease, embarrassed by strangeness, and furtively on the lookout for some familiar face; so that before the music began every chair held its morose castaway, every corner its anchorite. Others, unable to find chairs or a secluded nook, stood around the room in postures of loneliness varied by an occasional guilty survey of their neigh bors, or a profound and prolonged study of the pic tures on the wall. In time, each picture held its devotee; and then each vase and bronze, like a mag net, began to attract and attach to itself some soli tary with a close and anxious regard of its merits. So good of you to come! Murmured Mrs. Pinchin, greeting a fresh arrival; and thus it continued, ex actly in a fashion with all Mrs. Pinchin's evenings at home.
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